Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. – John Quincy Adams
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. – Paul Ryan
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. – John Jay
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. – Jeremy Bentham
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. – Toni Morrison
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. – Andrew Jackson
Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man. – Harry Segall
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. – Lawrence G. Lovasik
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. – Friedrich Schiller
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain. – Susan B. Anthony
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road. – Benjamin F. Wade
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. – Black Elk
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed. – Margaret J. Wheatley
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. – Spiro T. Agnew
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. – Andrea Dworkin
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. – Bryant H. McGill
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. – J. G. Holland
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Adams
A word after a word after a word is power. – Margaret Atwood
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! – David O. McKay
