Famous Quotes

"People demand freedom only when they have no power."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Power

More quotes about Power

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

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• "For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

• "The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."

• "For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

• "Resolve and thou art free."

• "The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."