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Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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.

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.