Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.

You fight things only when you are directly called and equipped to do so. We all become a well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. You lose all your inner freedom.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.