961 private quotes tagged power

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.” — Ayn Rand

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“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” — Francis Bacon

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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” — James Madison

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“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” — George Washington

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“The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.” — James Madison

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“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.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” — James Madison

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“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.” — Winston Churchill

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“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.” — Aeschylus

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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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“I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.” — Yogi Berra

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“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“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.” — Carl Jung

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“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” — James Madison

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“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.” — Samuel Johnson

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