Power Quotes - page 8
The spell of power never quite releases its hold.
The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.
We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.
[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.
The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.
Genius is a power of the soul and that powers of the soul can be developed by everyone.
An easy-going non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
Zeal to do all that is in one's power is, in truth, a proof of piety.
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.
Acting as your own sovereign power, grant yourself oblivion for past offences.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Power is always temporary.
I like words on public buildings and Firrell is a master of gauging their power.
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
[C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.
What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy.