Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
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