A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

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.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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

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 here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

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

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

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

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.