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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

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Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

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

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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

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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 power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

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Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

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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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