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A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry Adams

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. – Mao Zedong

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In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. – George Mason

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Because power corrupts, societys demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. – John Adams

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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. – George W. Bush

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