Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Quotations by Abigail Adams

Other quotes and quotations :

• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams
• Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams
• Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams
• Power is poison. It’s effect on Presidents had always been tragic. Henry Brooks Adams
• Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. John Adams
• Four things greater than all things are,Women and Horses and Power and War. Rudyard Kipling
• A friend in power is a friend lost. Henry Brooks Adams
• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it. James A. Garfield
• If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat. Herschel Walker
• Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. Mortimer J. Adler