Power Quotes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln



Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher



Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson



Character is power.
Booker T. Washington



All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche



Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee



I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson