Arbitrary Quote by John Quincy Adams

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the…

— John Adams

Individual liberty is individual power.

— John Quincy Adams

Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.

— Alfred Kazin

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

— Jose Marti

“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

Freedom exists only with power.

— Friedrich Schiller

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

— J. Martin Kohe

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

— Frederick Law Olmsted

All power is inherent in the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

— George Davis Herron

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no…

— John Adams