Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Power has no limits.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.