Dee Dee Myers Quotes

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces

Power over men is itself a satisfaction, besides providing opportunity to better one's circumstances with a minimum of exertion. Hence, the lust for power increases with its enjoyment and restraint is added to restraint. The government instituted to prevent men from transgressing one another's equal rights thus tends to become a transgressor of the rights of all. The injustice is far more oppressive than anyone man can do unto another, and the interests of freedom can be served only by restraint of government.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains

Those who administer or possess governing power, always try to surround their high-handed actions with a cloak of legality, and to persuade the people that they act from good motives; this they are easily able to effect when they are the sole interpreters of the law;

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or few is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Power is poison. Its effects on Presidents had always been tragic; chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bar the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carrion.

All governments abuse power. Every one of them. It's the duty of citizens to resist those abuses.

... all of our human experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part.

Power intoxicates men …. The Supreme Court must be curbed.

Power tends to corrupt if you're there too long.