#power

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is 'timing,' it waits on the right time to act, for the ...

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,...

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What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have

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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance?

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Nothing is more dangerous for man’s private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent,...

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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands

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In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and

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It's about the...

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

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Authority was not long inaugurated in the world, when it became the object of universal competition. Authority, Government,...

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Genius is the ability to act wisely without precedent — the power to do the right thing the first time. A capacity for

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All exercise of authority perverts, and submission to authority humiliates.

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There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

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When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible — such descent I call beauty. And there is nobody from whom I

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