Quotes about Power

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

There is no power shortage in heaven, and God is never in a recession. But His grace is sufficient to meet every need.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;

Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life. It has the potential to change a person's plotline for eternity. The right word at the right time can be the catalyst for someone else's miracle.