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If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

— Elliot Richardson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

— Maggie Kuhn

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

— Yoko Ono

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

— Milton Friedman

There are some things you have to give up to the higher power.

— Jimmy Smits

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

— John Boehner

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

— Eckhart Tolle

Power is always a corrupting influence.

— Charles Dance

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

— Hillary Clinton

Power has no limits.

— Tiberius

✗Opposing Perspectives

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.

— Dan Webster