Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is
trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved
by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence
of leadership.
-- Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
May one] doubt whether, in cheese and timber, worms are generated
or, if beetles and wasps, in cow-dung, or if butterflies, locusts,
shellfish, snails, eels, and such life be procreated of putrefied
matter, which is to receive the form of that creature to which it
is by formative power disposed[?...
