“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”
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“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”
“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.”
“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”
“If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.”
“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”
“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”
“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.”
“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
“The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.”
“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
“This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?”
“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.”