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Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Andrew Jackson

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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

Joichi Ito

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Power

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

James Irwin

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God

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.