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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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The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

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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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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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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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The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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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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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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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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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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