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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

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Excessive fear is always powerless.

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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

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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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Passions change, politics are immutable.

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Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

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Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

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Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

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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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You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

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