What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What we must not do - what we must never do - is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow Americans, for something they cannot control, and deny what makes them human.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.
We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.