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“there is, in the nature of sovereign power, an impatience of control, that disposes those who are invested with the exercise of it, to look with an evil eye upon all external attempts to restrain or direct its operations. From this spirit it happens, that in every political association which is formed upon the principle of uniting in a common interest a number of lesser sovereignties, there will be found a kind of eccentric tendency in the subordinate or inferior orbs, by the operation of which there will be a perpetual effort in each to fly off from the common centre. This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for. It has its origin in the love of power.”
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Alexander Hamilton

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“Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged. This simple proposition will teach us how little reason there is to expect, that the persons intrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy will at all times be ready, with perfect good-humor, and an unbiased regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions or decrees of the general authority. The reverse of this results from the constitution of human nature. If, therefore, the measures of the Confederacy cannot be executed without the intervention of the particular administrations, there will be little prospect of their being executed at all. The rulers of the respective members, whether they have a constitutional right to do it or not, will undertake to judge of the propriety of the measures themselves. They will consider the conformity of the thing proposed or required to their immediate interests or aims; the momentary conveniences or inconveniences that would attend its adoption. All this will be done; and in a spirit of interested and suspicious scrutiny, without that knowledge of national circumstances and reasons of state, which is essential to a right judgment, and with that strong predilection in favor of local objects, which can hardly fail to mislead the decision.”
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Alexander Hamilton

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“THE SECOND class of powers, lodged in the general government, consists of those which regulate the intercourse with foreign nations, to wit: to make treaties; to send and receive ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations; to regulate foreign commerce, including a power to prohibit, after the year 1808, the importation of slaves, and to lay an intermediate duty of ten dollars per head, as a discouragement to such importations.”
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Alexander Hamilton

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“It were doubtless to be wished, that the power of prohibiting the importation of slaves had not been postponed until the year 1808, or rather that it had been suffered to have immediate operation. But it is not difficult to account, either for this restriction on the general government, or for the manner in which the whole clause is expressed. It ought to be considered as a great point gained in favor of humanity, that a period of twenty years may terminate forever, within these States, a traffic which has so long and so loudly upbraided the barbarism of modern policy; that within that period, it will receive a considerable discouragement from the federal government, and may be totally abolished, by a concurrence of the few States which continue the unnatural traffic, in the prohibitory example which has been given by so great a majority of the Union. Happy would it be for the unfortunate Africans, if an equal prospect lay before them of being redeemed from the oppressions of their European brethren! Attempts”
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Alexander Hamilton

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“government ought to be clothed with all the powers requisite to complete execution of its trust. And unless it can be shown that the circumstances which may affect the public safety are reducible within certain determinate limits; unless the contrary of this position can be fairly and rationally disputed, it must be admitted, as a necessary consequence, that there can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community, in any matter essential to its efficacy that is, in any matter essential to the formation, direction, or support of the national forces.”
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Alexander Hamilton

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“The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise authority yet still fear it, and fear extracts from them more than they previously gave out of respect and love.”
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Alexis de Tocqueville

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“In the township, as well as everywhere else, the people is the only source of power; but in no stage of government does the body of citizens exercise a more immediate influence.”
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Alexis de Tocqueville

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“to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial power, as no age had ever witnessed.”
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Alexis de Tocqueville

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In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.
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Marianne Williamson

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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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Zora Neale Hurston

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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
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Zora Neale Hurston

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But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
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Zora Neale Hurston

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An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.
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Wangari Maathai

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It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
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Whoopi Goldberg

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What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?
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William Godwin

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The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
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William Makepeace

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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun

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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
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Thomas Hobbes

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I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
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Tom Cruise

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Toni Morrison

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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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Tony Benn

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You give away your power when you don't forgive.
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Tyler Perry

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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Susan B. Anthony

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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Susan B. Anthony

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Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
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Susan Sontag

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Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it's liberating, and it's empowering when you feel like, 'Well, I can do that, too.'
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Rihanna

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Power to the peaceful!
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Michael Franti

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Power is competence.
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Jordan Peterson

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To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
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Leon Trotsky

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I want the power that comes from expressing myself creatively and putting something back into the world. Being someone's muse would be flattering, but it could get old fast.
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Ari Graynor

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By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
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John Ray

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The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.
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Robert Greene

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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“Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power. ”
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Malcolm X

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We've got our own power - the power of the purse.
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John Dickerson

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As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.
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Monica Johnson

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I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life for His children. In His own words he told his disciples that His meat was to do the will of the Father.
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Monica Johnson

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God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.
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Monica Johnson

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Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is God Himself. Having all power in His hands, He laid down His life for people who deserved God's justice, not His mercy.
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Monica Johnson

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Jesus was humble when He walked this earth. He had all power, yet used all meekness.
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Monica Johnson

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Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of the land, and as God, he had the power not to do any of it.
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Monica Johnson

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"When something really matters, you should never give up or give in."
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Gordon Brown

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“When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.”

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“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
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Thomas Jefferson

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“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” 
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Sun Tzu

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