Quotes about Power
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
— Frederick Douglass
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
— Edmund Burke
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
— Millard Fillmore
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
— Thomas Jefferson
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
— Euripides
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.
— Hilaire Belloc
Man is not free unless government is limited.
— Ronald Reagan
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
— St. Augustine
The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
— Erwin McManus
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
— George W. Bush
I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
— Muhammad Ali