Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time
Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.
Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!
When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
