Power Quotes

"We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once"

Orville Wright, Inventor

"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power"

Orville Wright, Inventor

"Power ought to serve as a check to power"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

"The people must have the power to elect their leaders and hold them accountable for their actions"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate"

Martin Van Buren, President

"The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"There was nothing there but black water and American fire power"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"I cured with the power that came through me"

Black Elk, Leader

"It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think"

Robert Henri, Artist

"The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me"

Black Elk, Leader

"Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"Our power is not so much in us as through us"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing"

Quintilian, Educator

"Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens"

Martin Van Buren, President

"In the twilight, it was a vision of power"

Upton Sinclair, Author

"I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all"

Pericles, Statesman

"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant"

Martin Van Buren, President

"There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

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