I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Mike Ditka

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

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman

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

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

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift

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