Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.