People demand freedom only when they have no power.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.