In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself to multiply the ways in which he exists to make his life full significant and interesting.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something or that you were forced to but actually whatever you do you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you pervert and discipline your natural tastes civilize and sterilize you.

When every physical and mental resources is focused one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

A man who lives right and is right has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Pessimism leads to weakness optimism to power.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger more beautiful more powerful. This is power it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Because power corrupts society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves without revelation admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Tonight we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers or the power of our military or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.