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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.