Quotes about Power

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

Wherever men are weak, there is no love - and destruction reigns.

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.

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

These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.

We are agents of omnipotence. This means that unlimited power is at our fingertips. It also means that there are no great men working in God's Kingdom. Rather, there is a great God at work in human beings who have childlike faith.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also interwoven our destiny with the destiny of many peoples and brought us into a vast web of history in which other wills, running in oblique or contrasting directions to our own, inevitably hinder or contradict what we most fervently desire. We cannot simply have our way, not even when we believe our way to have the "happiness of mankind" as its promise.