Power

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

I freed Germany from the stupid and degrading fallacies of conscience and morality...we will train young people before whom the world will tremble.

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

I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant.

There is such a gap between how one lives and how one ought to live that anyone who abandons what is done for what ought to be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation: For a man who wishes to profess goodness at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.

From this arises an argument: Whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than loved when one of the two must be lacking.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

Her voice is full of money,"... That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it....High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl.... F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby like

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it.

Governments never learn anything. The electorate does.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

It is far safer to be feared than loved.

‘There was more than one power at work, Frodo.

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

Do as I bid! It is scarcely wise when bringing the news of the death of his heir to a mighty lord to speak over much of the coming of one who will, if he comes, claim the kingship. Is that enough?’

‘In that hour I looked on Aragorn and thought how great and terrible a Lord he might have become in the strength of his will, had he taken the Ring to himself. Not for naught does Mordor fear him. But nobler is his spirit than the understanding of Sauron; for is he not of the children of Lúthien? Never shall that line fail, though the years may lengthen beyond count.’

There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the wisdom of earlier ages. For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men, and the solution is a technique.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others.

For nothing will be impossible with God.