1. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. - Jonathan Swift 

2. Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. - Woodrow Wilson 

3. The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its 'necessary principles.' - Han Fei 

4. I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. - Paris Hilton 

5. We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution. - Fred Hampton 

6. We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. - William E. Gladstone 

7. The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. - Samuel Adams

8. The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. - Michel Foucault 

9. Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology. - Michel Foucault 

10. Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do. - Ciara 

11. Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. - Ice Cube 

12. What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. - Simon Wiesenthal 

13. When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it. - Vernon Howard 

14. There is a lot of stuff we can't control, but it is completely in our power to decide what the definition of what a good job is. That's up to us. - Mike Rowe 

15. The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds. - Ted Cruz 

16. What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power? - Cornelius Vanderbilt 

17. The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. - Franklin Pierce 

18. The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. - Origen 

19. For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new systems of organization in the economy and in politics, but you don't see any real improvement in the well-being of the average person. - Yuval Noah Harari 

20. I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society. - Marya Mannes 

21. Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia. - Zbigniew Brzezinski 

22. In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. - George Mason

 23. On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home. - Florence Kelley

 24. Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. - Adrienne Rich 

25. For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidized. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. - James Buchan 

26. My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. - Jim Garrison 

27. No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. - John Jay 

28. High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power. - Joseph Stiglitz 

29. There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost godlike knowledge that nobody living through history has. - David Grann 

30. In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. - Cesare Beccaria 

31. Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. - Edgar Winter 3

2. Ultimately, the power of the Airbnb platform is that it motivates guests to blend into communities, belong anywhere, and live like locals. - Joe Gebbia 

33. The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. - Winston Churchill 

34. For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. - Winston Churchill 

35. It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. - Winston Churchill 

36. The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. - Winston Churchill 

37. There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. - Henry David Thoreau 

38. There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. - Henry David Thoreau 

39. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. - Abraham Lincoln 

40. These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. - Abraham Lincoln 

41. It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. - Abraham Lincoln 

42. Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. - Abraham Lincoln 

43. The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application. - Abraham Lincoln 

44. That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. - Albert Einstein 

45. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. - Albert Einstein 

46. Nothing external to you has any power over you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

47. Power and speed be hands and feet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

48. Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

49. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

50. Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

51. I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

52. Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

53. War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

54. The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. - Lao Tzu 

55. In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. - Aristotle 

56. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. - Aristotle 

57. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle 

58. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. - Aristotle

59. A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. - Aristotle

 60. To live happily is an inward power of the soul. - Marcus Aurelius 

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

62. Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. - Vladimir Lenin 

63. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. - Virginia Woolf 

64. Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. - Virginia Woolf 

65. All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. - Ronald Reagan 

66. There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. - Plato 

67. The measure of a man is what he does with power. - Plato 

68. He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. - Plato 

69. Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question. - Bernie Sanders 

70. I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns. - Bernie Sanders 

71. General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries. - Bernie Sanders 

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

73. You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere. - Donald Trump 

74. Owning a great golf course gives you great power. - Donald Trump

 75. Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen - while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West. - Donald Trump 

76. As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology. - Donald Trump 

77. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. - John F. Kennedy 

78. When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. - John F. Kennedy 

79. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. - John F. Kennedy 

80. I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. - John F. Kennedy 

81. Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. - John F. Kennedy 

82. Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. - John F. Kennedy 

83. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 

84. Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. - Barack Obama 

85. As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act. - Barack Obama 

86. What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. - Barack Obama 

87. Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake. - Barack Obama 

88. Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. - Barack Obama 

89. In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama 

90. We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled. - Barack Obama 

91. Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. - Thomas Jefferson 

92. The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. - Thomas Jefferson 

93. This revolution, the information resolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? - Steve Jobs 

94. The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down. - Bob Marley 

95. I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. - Socrates 

96. Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. - Voltaire 

97. What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. - Voltaire 

98. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. - Voltaire 

99. The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. - Voltaire 

100. This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. - Joe Biden