Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I want to use but not misuse my position as President of the General Assembly.

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

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

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

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

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

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

The fellow that has power is the one who uses it sparingly ... I had more power when I went into office than when I went out.

I have sat at the sumptuous table of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.

Rulers should always remind themselves that they are men like the least of their subjects.

More power than any good man should have, and more power than any other kind of man ought to have.

We have to entrust power to someone, but nobody can be entrusted with power. That is our dilemma.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.