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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

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

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

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

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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

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

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

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

The Medici created and destroyed me.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

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

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

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

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

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.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.