“Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning”

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”

“Folly is a child of power.”

“I am of the opinion that there is nothing which has been produced by the will of man which cannot in its turn be altered...”

“Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one'...”

“The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.”

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood”

“But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1”

“Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.”

“Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”

“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”