There is no man more dangerous in a position of power than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it all its inhabitants and all contained in its realm.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
Doing the right thing has power.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
I learned a good deal about economics and about America from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like but the right to do what we ought.
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors even to our animal neighbors the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
If women be educated for dependence that is to act according to the will of another fallible being and submit right or wrong to power where are we to stop?
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
A man who lives right and is right has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable and they are frightened of things they don't understand.