Famous Quotes

"The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall."

Davy Crockett 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 Davy Crockett

• "The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit."

• "Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others."

• "I have always supported measures and principles and not men."

• "We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money."

• "If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"