Famous Quotes

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."

John Quincy Adams 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 John Quincy Adams

• "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

• "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

• "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

• "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

• "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."