There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.
Robert Hayne
Power flows to the man who knows how. Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Elbert Hubbard
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
Ayn Rand
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, not whence it came, but who should have it.
John Locke
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things.
Seneca
There are only two powers in the world - the spirit and the sword; and in the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In seasons of tumult and discord, bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
Tacitus
It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon
Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Baron Wessenburg
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.
Frederick Douglass
An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work. And it's not fun for a smart person to work in a place where the best ideas aren't the ones that win.
Paul Graham
This is the source.
Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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