Freedom Quote by Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

— Immanuel Kant

“It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.”

— Ian Gregoire

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”

— James Madison

“We the People have the power that becomes the power but the power abuses its power becoming tyrannical to its source of power.”

— Jose R. Coronado

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

— James MacGregor Burns

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

— Richard Rudomanski

“Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The…

— Emily Thorne

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power…

— James Madison

“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.”

— Aberjhani

“It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it;…

— Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

“What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for…

— Irvine Welsh

While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the…

— John Quincy Adams