Quotes About Power

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Back, back, back, back. Gone.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.