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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
Adam Schiff
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An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
Phaedrus
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
Barney Frank