The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.