Check Quote by John Adams

You can't trust anybody with power.

— Newt Gingrich

“...I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.”

— John Adams

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

— Anonymous

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

— William Proxmire

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Power should be a check on power.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Power is trust I repeat... that all power is a trust”

— Azhar

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

— Bill Cosby

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

— Baron de Montesquieu

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

— Henry David Thoreau

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

— William Jones

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

— Tacitus