Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.
Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
The governor’s mansion was not good enough for me, although it was too good for my predecessor.
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.
The right divine of kings to govern wrong.
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
The world will go on much as it did before; and be always quite bad enough to allow bribery and corruption, jobbery and nepotism, quackery and arrogance, their full influence over our home and foreign policy.
Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.
I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.
More power than any good man should have, and more power than any other kind of man ought to have.
I suppose people also have to be a little more careful or circumspect if they're going to leverage their celebrity to promote their political aims. The problem is that politics is about the accretion of power, and it's very difficult not to get giddy with power.
The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.
We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
Resist the temptation to exploit power for personal or group interests.
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.
