Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it..
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to….
Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood..
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band..
Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand..
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding..
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to….
Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads..
Have others fear you, and I will have no fear..
There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice..
The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they unde….
A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive ….
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power..
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof o….
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing..
The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not be….
Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds.
The law has no power over heroes..
I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but ….
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power..
Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever….