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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The property of power is to protect.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.