Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.