The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock
If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of... →
Lysander Spooner
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties.... →
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties... →
All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the... →
When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding... →
To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they... →
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be... →
Madame de Stael
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
Joseph Stalin