Power is absolute. If you don't use it, you lose it.
— Philip Ii Of Macedon (Fredric March)
6 seconds sound clip from the Alexander the Great (1956) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:26:27 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- We?
- Your father will see you now.
- Yes.
- An act of revolt against the state is treason.
- In giving you the regency, I give you power.
- Power is absolute. If you don't use it, you lose it.
- My father always spoke bluntly.
- Did he? That's not what people say.
- They say Philip, the cunning, the fox.
- I ask him to speak bluntly now.
- Then I do not choose to answer.
[...]