“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
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“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”
“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”
“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”
“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”
“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.”
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.”
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.”
“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”
“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”
“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”
“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.”
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
“Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.”
“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”