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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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A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

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If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

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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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Power is the recognition of necessity.

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Power is the first good.

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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

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I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

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

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

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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

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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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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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