Arbitrary Power Quotes

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington

Power, Liberty, Ruins

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams

Power, Arbitrary, Bud

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams

Power, Hard, Broken

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
Larry Wall

Power, Different, Rejection

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney

Power, Corruption, Liberty

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Mercy Otis Warren

Love, Power, Lust

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
William H. Seward

Power, True, Whole

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
John Rawls

Love, Power, Bad

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Frederick Law Olmsted

Power, Truth, Destroy

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