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To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will read more
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
 Patience and Gentleness is Power.
   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),  
 Patience and Gentleness is Power.
   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt), 
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both
The law has no power over heroes.
The law has no power over heroes.
 Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
 [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann read more 
 Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
 [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.] 
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to read more
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed read more
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
 Without his rod revers'd,
 And backward mutters of dissevering power.  
 Without his rod revers'd,
 And backward mutters of dissevering power.