These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

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

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Nature has always had more force than education.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don’t be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.