Power Without Quotes

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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party… — Tony Blair
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and… — John Dickinson
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power — Wallace D. Wattles
He was Caesar and Pope in oÂne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without… — Benjamin Smith
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a… — Thomas Paine
We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the… — Jacques Maritain
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. — Martin Luther
Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. — Stanley Baldwin
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. — Catherine the Great
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. — Samuel Johnson
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation. — Michael Ignatieff
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its… — Albert J. Nock
Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will… — William Jewett Tucker
Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since… — E.C. Riegel
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have… — Omar N. Bradley
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the… — Iain Pears
Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless, — Iain Pears
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present… — Jack Gilbert

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