Power

Famous quotes containing the word power:

“The distinction, which we often make betwixt power and the exercise of it, is equally without foundation.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“My most desire my hand may reach,
My will is alway at my hand;
Me need not long for to beseech
Her that hath power me to command.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

“Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.”
—Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)