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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
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.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.
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.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
