"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

Power, Excess, Man, Opinions

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"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

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"Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

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"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."

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"Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!"

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"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

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"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

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"The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed."

Giulio Douhet, Italian Soldier

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"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

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"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

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"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."

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"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."

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"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

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