“Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.”
“Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
“The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.”
“The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.”
“No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
“If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.”
“Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.”
“Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.”
“What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.”
“By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.”
“Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.”
“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”
“We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.”
“If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.”
“I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.”
“If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.”
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
“You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.”
“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
“Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.”
“All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.”
“Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
“Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.”