Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. – Bryant H. McGill

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husbands bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. – Pearl S. Buck

The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato