“Good power flourishes, bad power corrupts.”
Timothy John Waterhouse
“Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed”
Thomas Jefferson
“If you cannot take what you give, then you have no business to be in the super power business.”
Muhammed Haider
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
