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- Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams
- 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 power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,… — Milton Friedman
- [I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney
- This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig von Mises
- The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the… — Mercy Otis Warren
- The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
- The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by… — Joseph Story
- All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand
- By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only… — Joseph Sobran
- There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the… — Isabel Paterson
- There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of… — Ayn Rand