Power Quote by Richard M. Nixon

“Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The…

— Emily Thorne

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they…

— David Hume

“No nation, whatever its power, can be called great when it imposes tyranny upon its citizens—worse, upon people it claims as its citizens, not”

— Ada Palmer

“There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about…

— Lew Wallace

“However enlightened and however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself embrace all the details of the existence of a great…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.”

— Bryant McGill

“The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as…

— John F. Kennedy

“The greatness of a nation is not the military power to enforce its will upon others, but rather its capacity to inspire high ideals…

— Anonymous

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and…

— Frederick Douglass

“It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less…

— Abhijit V. Banerjee