Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

I am a tough guy.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

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.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.