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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost on power

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw on power

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Paine on power

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac on power

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
Benito Mussolini on power

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah on power

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone on power

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve Jobs on power

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
Ayrton Senna on power

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Theodore Dreiser on power

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert Camus on power

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher on power

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar on power

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell on power

The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato on power

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke on power

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
Barack Obama on power

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Robert Anthony on power

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie Chaplin on power

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams on power