Pastoral Resources

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

Politics is not about power.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.