The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

To me, power is making things happen without asking for permission. It's affecting the way people perceive themselves and the world around them. It's making people stand up with pride.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction.