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

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

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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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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

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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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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

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Greatness knows itself.

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

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An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

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