"Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue."
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"Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely."
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"The depositary of power is always unpopular."
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"Excessive fear is always powerless."
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"We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties."
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"The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used."
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"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."
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"For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity."
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"Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
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"Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There."
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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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"A power is passing from the earth."
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"Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money."
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"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."
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"Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim."
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"Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded."
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"The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible."
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"Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them."
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"It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions."
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