The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
Blaise Pascal

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Swami Vivekananda

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Richard Bach

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
Aaliyah

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
Spike Milligan

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
Andy Rooney

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
Jay Leno

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein