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Edmund Burke1729–1797

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke on power

Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

Government Power

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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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