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

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

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

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

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

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.