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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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A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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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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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

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The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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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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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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