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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

One mark of a great man is the power of making lasting impressions upon people he meets.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.