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“No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.”

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Author:John Lehman

“Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security.”

Source: Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer

“Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.”

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Author:Lucan

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.”

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Author:Lord Acton

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event