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

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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 possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

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

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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

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Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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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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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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Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

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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 begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

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To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

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Superhuman power is not strong enough.

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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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