The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.
Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.
Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.
Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.
The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.
The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
