In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself though even there he will have to put up with himself.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement it comes from the power of the press.

Parenting as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power entails lower status less power and less control of resources than paid work.

Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills parenting cooking elaborate meals purchasing a grown-up bed jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?