Power and speed be hands and feet.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

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

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

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

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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 major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

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

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

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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

Words are loaded pistols.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

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

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

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.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

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.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

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

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.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

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.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.