The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.