Die meisten / Most Etabliert / Established Freiheit / Liberty Leicht / Easily Leistung / Power Missbrauch / Abuse Ruinen / Ruins Willkürlich / Arbitrary Willkürliche Macht / Arbitrary Power
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
