Quotes about Power
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
- Thomas Jefferson
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
- Ronald Reagan
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
- Albert Camus
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
- Edmund Burke
If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?
- Ronald Reagan
Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
- Will Rogers
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.
- Al Gore
Be a politician; no training necessary.
- Will Rogers
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
- Ellen Glasgow