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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

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Its sort of a feeling of power onstage. Its really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I dont really think its power… its the goodness. – Robert Plant

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh. – Aeschylus

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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. – John Stuart Mill

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