961 private quotes tagged power

“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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“Money: power at its most liquid.” — Mason Cooley

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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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“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.” — Francis Bacon

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“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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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison

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“Real politics are the possession and distribution of 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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“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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“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.” — Winston Churchill

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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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“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“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.” — 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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“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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“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.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” — C. S. Lewis

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