Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.


James F. Byrnes

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You're intoxicated by my very presence.
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He exhibited signs of being intoxicated.
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He appeared to be intoxicated, You know who I am.
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Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
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When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
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He was heavily intoxicated. Just being in the cab business, I deal with them all the time.
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For a woman, a drink is like two drinks are for a man, so a woman gets intoxicated more rapidly.
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Being intoxicated causes poor judgment.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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Strange, that he who lives by Shifts, can seldom shift himself.
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I've never seen anybody get intoxicated from them. If anything, it slows people's consumption down.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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When the powerful uses the power, he becomes powerless.
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It's a matter of seeing how Nathan recovers for when he steps up to training.
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I'm gonna party, see how intoxicated I can get and how many rules I can flaunt. That's my motto.
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Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age...
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When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balanc...
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a...
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The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can li...
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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
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Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad a...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for Preside...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public lif...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he mus...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the Un...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some m...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a natio...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknow...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their ch...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents dan...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon an...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all c...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
A child miseducated is a child lost.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. ...
JOHN F. KELLY
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the j...
WALTER F. ULMER
We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
WALTER F. ULMER
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and th...
WALTER F. MONDALE
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to televisio...
WALTER F. MONDALE
I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they...
WALTER F. MONDALE
I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
WALTER F. MONDALE
Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single...
WALTER F. MONDALE
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like ...
WALTER F. MONDALE