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- Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
- John Calhoun (1782 - 1850)
- I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Great is truth, and all powerful.
- Vulgate
- It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
- Quintilian
- It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- What power has law where only money rules.
- Gaius Petronius (~66 AD)
- Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836)
- Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est) - Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. (1597)
- The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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