People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise Pascal
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis
