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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

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Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

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The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

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Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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Power educates the potentate.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

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Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

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It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

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