Power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips.
Power is no blessing in itself, but when it is employed to protect the innocent. Swift.
Power is nothing but as it is felt, and the delight of superiority is proportionate to the resistance overcome. Johnson.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness 45 in itself has the aspect of strength. Bulwer Lytton.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, / Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, / Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, / Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame a mechanized automaton. Shelley.
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. Colton.
Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. Bacon.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. Colton.
Power's footstool is opinion, and his throne the 50 human heart. Sir Aubrey de Vere.
Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it. Matthew Arnold.