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

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

“Folly is a child of power.”

“Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.”

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

“Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.”

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

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

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

“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.”