“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.”
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“I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.”
“Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.”
“It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.”
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.”
“The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.”
“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
“Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.”
“Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.”
“Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.”
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.”
“Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.”
“When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.”
“The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.”
“Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.”
“Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.”
“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.”
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.”
“Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!”
“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.”