“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.”

“Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”

“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...”

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

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

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

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

“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.”