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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

The hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die liberty will never perish.

Power does not corrupt men fools however if they get into a position of power corrupt power.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful powerful man but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long where it really is nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness more compassion more joy more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Well love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself you have no power over yourself you can't even think straight.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this this isn't him. This is not him.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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