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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

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A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

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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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There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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What power is higher than the power of purity?

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Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

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The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

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

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The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

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