Laurence Steinberg once suggested that what causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority, but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules, and no involvement in decision-making.

Warren Bennis once remarked that leadership is the wise use of power, and power is the capacity to translate intention into reality, and sustain it.

She should do what is fair and right about the protection of the migratory game and bird life that annually passes twice through her territory! At the last session of the Maryland legislature, the law preventing the use of power boats in wild-fowl shooting was repealed.

Stop the use of power boats in wild-fowl shooting.

] It is a curious commentary that the very dream of the social reformers of only twenty years ago is so rudely dispelled by the march of events, for in the late nineties it was the hope of the enthusiast, particularly the student in electrical science, that the factory system might in time be done away with, and by the use of power served from long or short distance over wires to a man's own habitation, all the industries of manufacture might be carried on in a man's own home-just as used to be the case with the spinners and weavers of olden time.

To the expectations of the people, my lords, it is always proper to have some regard, nor is there any valuable use of power but that of promoting happiness, and preventing or removing calamities; but we are not to endeavour to pacify them by the appearance of redress, which, in reality, will only increase those evils of which they complain, nor to depress the reputation of this assembly by passing laws which the experience of a single month will prove to be of no use.

It is no mean security for a proper use of power, that a man has shewn by the general tenor of his actions, that the affection, the good opinion, the confidence, of his fellow citizens have been among the principal objects of his life; and that he has owed none of the gradations of his power or fortune to a settled contempt, or occasional forfeiture of their esteem.

Men, no more than women, know how to make a moderate use of power.

And I hope this shows that I am not so totally abandoned as I have been thought to be. 'Indeed, with me, she has done more honour to her sex in her fall, if it be to be called a fall, (in truth it ought not,) than ever any other could do in her standing. 'When, at length, I had given her watchful virtue cause of suspicion, I was then indeed obliged to make use of power and art to prevent her escaping from me.

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