Quotes about Power

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

I look forward to 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

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Do not pray for easy times, pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

It makes no difference what Washington, DC, thinks... what Iran wants... what Russia demands or what the European Union hopes for—it only matters what God Almighty has declared! He has all power in heaven and on earth!

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

As inscribed on John Keats' tombstone: This Grave contains all that was Mortal, of a YOUNG ENGLISH POET, Who on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart, at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these Words to be engraven on his Tomb Stone: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water. Feb 24 1821

In passing however I must say of one thing that has pressed upon me lately and encreased my Humility and capability of submission and that is this truth - Men of Genius are great as certain ethereal Chemicals operating on the Mass of neutral intellect - but they have not any individuality, any determined Character - I would call the top and head of those who have a proper self Men of Power.

If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, you have to learn to smile while you kill