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

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

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

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.

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

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

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

Affluence means influence.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

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

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.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

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

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.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

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.

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.

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

Words are loaded pistols.

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.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

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 do think there should be some regulations on AI.

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

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

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

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.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

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

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

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

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.