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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. – Herbert Hoover

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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. – Herbert Hoover

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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. – Herbert Hoover

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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. – Clarence Darrow

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. – Denis Diderot

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Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. – Honore de Balzac

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

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