Arbitrary Quote by George Washington

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”—George Washington.”

— Richard Rudomanski

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

— Frederick Law Olmsted

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves

— Hugo Grotius

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its…

— John Quincy Adams

“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.”

— James MacGregor Burns

Individual liberty is individual power.

— John Quincy Adams

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent…

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

— Herbert Marcuse

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide…

— Ron Paul

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

— Algernon Sidney