Quotes About Power

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

The reputation of power IS power.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.