Historical Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

— Alexander Hamilton

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

— Samuel Smiles

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

— Alexander Hamilton

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but…

— Samuel Smiles

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

— Woodrow Wilson

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally…

— Samuel Adams

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

— Thomas Hobbes

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its…

— C. S. Lewis

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

— Max Weber

Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the…

— David Mitchell