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"They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people."
"Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil."
"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
"Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?"
"Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?"
"Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time."
"Seek to know the power that is within you."
"Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power."
"Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you."
"The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good."
"Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people."
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
"You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer."
"Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man."
"Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages."
"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."
"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
"Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared."
"The property of power is to protect."
"Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases."
