In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till philosophers become kings in this world or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich because there are more of them and the will of the majority is supreme.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

There are two ways of attaining an important end force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

In my opinion most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.