I’m rereading your last comment.

Of course I have no problem with power. What is freedom, ultimately? The legitimate use of power within certain bounds. What is property? Obviously exclusive power over some things, power to direct its energy to one or another end.

The problem I have is power for power’s sake, where it becomes power over others, and therefore a transgression of others’ freedom. For me maximum virtue lies in inhibition of power, in restraining the instinct to exert one’s will where it is legitimate to do so. And that is over one’s body and property and, through voluntary interaction, over other domains.

Hardly the stuff to create myths and appear in History books, but great in its own way.