The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears it seems are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others nor our own powerlessness stupefy us.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

In the intellectual order the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity even a duty.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all in our heads and in our everyday behavior the fascism that causes us to love power to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

If women be educated for dependence that is to act according to the will of another fallible being and submit right or wrong to power where are we to stop?

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power whether vested in many or a few is ever grasping and like the grave cries 'Give give.'

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

Power is domination control and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Power is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Appreciate the power of rumor often malicious no matter how preposterous within the local populations you are seeking to help.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.