What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.