Centre Quote by Charles Handy

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to…

— Patrick Henry

Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be…

— James Madison

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have nothing in…

— Michel Foucault

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

— Gouverneur Morris

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never…

— Frank Chodorov

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

— Charles Kennedy

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

— Manuel Castells

“If the distribution of power among the several parts of the State is the most efficient restraint on monarchy, the distribution of power among…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by…

— Lord Chesterfield

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

— Felix Morley