| "Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose." »Herbert Hoover |
| "How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure." »William James |
| "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." »David Brin |
| "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." »Brigham Young |
| "To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive." »James Boswell |
| "Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people." »George Herbert Walker Bush |
| "The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us." »John F. Kennedy |
| "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 his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." »Reinhold Niebuhr |
| "Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power." »Unknown |
| "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
| "power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." »William Proxmire |
| "Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice." »Ayn Rand |
| "The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone." »Margaret Mead |
| "Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex." »Katharine Graham |
| "Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor." »Eric Sevareid |
| "The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely." »Lyman Bryson |
| "Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power." »Peter McWilliams |
| "The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses." »Bryce Courtenay |
| "power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power." »Malcolm X |
| "power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." »Emerich Edward Dalbert |
| "power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." »John Lehman |
| "The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose." »J. Martin Kohe |
| "One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." »Albert Einstein |
| "Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership." »Theodore Harold White |
| "No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king" »Eliza Mother Stewart |
| "Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." »Harry S Truman |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
