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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right read more
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
 Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
 [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]  
 Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
 [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.] 
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; read more
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is 
no power but of God: the powers read more 
 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is 
no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
 My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in 
whatever hands it is placed.  
 My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in 
whatever hands it is placed. 
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his read more
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.