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

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

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

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

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

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

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.