Famous Quotes

"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."

Daniel Webster on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Daniel Webster

• "Keep cool anger is not an argument."

• "Keep cool anger is not an argument."

• "On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions."

• "Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital."

• "The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."