Quotes about Power
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
- Edmund Burke
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
- Millard Fillmore
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
- Thomas Jefferson
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
- Euripides
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.
- Hilaire Belloc
Man is not free unless government is limited.
- Ronald Reagan
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
- St. Augustine
The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
- Erwin McManus
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
- George W. Bush
I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
- Muhammad Ali
Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.
- Beth Moore
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
- William Hazlitt