I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx

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

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil Gibran

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Wayne Dyer

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

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

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

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

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-Tung

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

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

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

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