Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Power
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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
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MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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