Arbitrary Quote by George Washington

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

— Richard Rudomanski

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

— Algernon Sidney

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

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

— Edmund Burke

[I]f 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

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

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

Liberty must not be abused.

— Louisa May Alcott