"Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."
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"In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things."
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"The object of power is power."
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"To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine."
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"Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced."
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"The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires."
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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
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"The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another."
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"The law always limits every power it gives."
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"I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go."
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"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."
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"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
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"He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power."
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"But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao."
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"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
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"Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water."
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"The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either"
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"Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas."
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"The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]"
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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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