The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.