Power Quotes

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts."

"Ambition is the surest mark of corruption in a man."

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man."

"Fear is the foundation of most governments."

"Ambition and avarice are the mark of the man who would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

"The arithmetic of discontent has never been favorable to power."

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself."

"The power of the sword, say the minority, is in the hands of Congress. My friend, if they touch the seat of your liberty, they can be controlled by the militia."

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself."

"Woman has it in her power to more readily effect all necessary changes."

"I have always maintained that if women would simply refuse to bear children, they would accomplish the rights of mankind in the next generation."

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."

"I believe the power to make is in the people, always was, and always will be."

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands is the definition of tyranny."

"The pen is mightier than the sword, yet the sword is sometimes necessary to protect the pen."

"He who commands the finances of the nation has the true seat of power."

"The greatest power is the power to choose."

"I declare a woman's right to be whatever she wishes to be."

"The most powerful thing women possess is the ability to define themselves."

"The greatness of woman is realized when she claims her own power."

"Experience hath shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends."

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."

"I am not a woman that is going to be put down by anybody."

"I have found that the greatest power comes from speaking the truth."

"I have found that the greatest power lies in unity and collective action."

"The pen is mightier than the sword in shaping public opinion."

"The weight of the world rests on the shoulders of those who dare to lead."