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• Arrogance is too often the companion of excellence. -- Fox on Powe
• There is no freedom without the power to defend it.
• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
  You may have to work for it, however. -- Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]...
• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
  You may have to work for it, however. -- R. Bach, "Messiah's Handbook...
• Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• Liberal - a power worshiper without power. -- George Orwell (1903-1950)
• When democracy granted democratic methods to us in times of opposition, this was bound to happen in a democratic system.
  However, we National Socialists never asserted that we represented a democratic point of view, but we have declared openly that we used the democratic methods only to gain power and that, after assuming the power, we would deny to our adversaries without any consideration the means which were granted to us in times of our opposition....
• For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.
  -- Cicero (106-43 BC) -- De Oratore, 78...