In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Colin Powell

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
Rush Limbaugh

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
Rush Limbaugh

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Rush Limbaugh

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Wilson Mizner

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James Madison

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

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
James Madison

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
James Madison

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
James Madison

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius

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