| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Power |
| | | All human power is but comparative. | 1 |
| Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. Washington. | 2 |
| For sovereign power all laws are broken. Spanish. | 3 |
| He is most powerful who governs himself. Seneca. | 4 |
| No power, no respect. | 5 |
| Power can achieve more by gentle means than by violence. | 6 |
| Power goes before talent. Danish. | 7 |
| Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whate’er it touches. Shelley. | 8 |
| Power on my head or the raven on my corpse. Turkish. | 9 |
| Power weakeneth the wicked. | 10 |
| The nature of sovereign power is not to endure a rival. Tacitus. | 11 |
| When power puts in its plea, the laws are silent. Massinger. | 12 | | |
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