The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

In the next 10 years I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet every moment of every day.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves finding our power and living for yourself not for everyone else.

There is no man more dangerous in a position of power than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs unless they're extremely well informed.

Many have said of Alchemy that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation you can't ever start a work of art.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry allied with the pharmaceutical industry has more power than public-health professionals.

Give fools their gold and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field or trains a flower or plants a tree is more than all.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know my lords: that where law ends tyranny begins.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it all its inhabitants and all contained in its realm.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

The functions of these elders therefore determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

Given the daunting challenges that we face it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.