“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.”

“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...”

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

“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.”

“Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.”

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

“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”

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

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