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I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.