Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.