[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist…

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

— Algernon Sidney

“...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly…

— Arthur Koestler

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of…

— William H. Seward

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

— Abigail Adams

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at…

— Anthony Lewis

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

— George Washington

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree…

— Isabel Paterson

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by…

— Lord Chesterfield

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a…

— Jonathan Swift

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

— Edmund Burke

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay…

— Lord Chesterfield

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall…

— Isabel Paterson

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

— John Quincy Adams

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

— Roger L'Estrange