You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
There are some things you have to give up to the higher power.
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.
The way to have power is to take it.
Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
Power is the ability to get things done.
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.