Quote by Edmund Burke
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burk

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. – Edmund Burke

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. – C. Wright Mills

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The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham

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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. – Hannah Arendt

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I repeat… that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. – Benjamin Disraeli

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