Power Quotes

"The government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force."

"No power was ever given to the people in the history of the world save through struggle and sacrifice."

"In the final analysis, our people will determine the future."

"The law is what we make of it."

"We must be the architects of our own destiny."

"The mind of man is capable of anything."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand."

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

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again."

"I don't want to ride in the back of anything; I want to drive my own destiny."

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

"Goodness alone is never sufficient; we must add strength."

"I have always been of the opinion that the master of our fate is ourselves."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power when he has it."

"While we are grateful for their past services, we should not be unmindful that a disposition to abuse power is human."

"You must understand that people are willing to sacrifice their freedom for security."

"No one could take my soul from me."

"My spirit could never be enslaved, only my body."

"I declare to you that woman must have a purse of her own and how to use it."

"I have always felt that woman's true power lies in her intellectual and moral nature."

"Woman must have the power to control her own destiny."

"An individual, no matter how good, cannot triumph against the system."

"The powerful will never willingly give up their power; it must be taken through law and determination."

"Rights are not given; they are taken and defended through struggle."

"We must demand not the crumbs from the table of justice, but a seat at the table itself."

"Born into a family of high social position, they have all the advantages that wealth and power can offer."

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

"I prided myself upon my ability to manage slaves, and to govern them well."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

"A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."