Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.