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Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.