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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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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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Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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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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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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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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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

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