I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs and all must exist.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.

Power is not a means it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time will do it better will preserve it longer than the sad or sullen.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.

All gods are homemade and it is we who pull their strings and so give them the power to pull ours.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We do not need more intellectual power we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen we need more of the things that are unseen.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself to multiply the ways in which he exists to make his life full significant and interesting.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however.