Absolute power demoralizes.
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.