[speedplane]

“Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.”

“‘This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.’ Abraham Lincoln”

[astrange]

> Power must be taken, it is never given.

Seems self-evidential that you should not let anyone who says this become a leader. And similarly, the problem solves itself if you elect someone who doesn't believe it.