Absolute Power Demoralizes.

Federalism Is The Best Curb On Democracy. [it] Assigns Limited Powers To The Central Government. Thereby All Power Is Limited. It Excludes Absolute Power Of The Majority.

The Epoch Of Doubt And Transition During Which The Greeks Passed From The Dim Fancies Of Mythology To The Fierce Light Of Science Was The Age Of Pericles, And The Endeavour To Substitute Certain Truth For The Prescriptions Of Impaired Authorities, Which Was Then Beginning To Absorb The Energies Of The Greek Intellect, Is The Grandest Movement In The Profane Annals Of Mankind, For To It We Owe, Even After The Immeasurable Progress Accomplished By Christianity, Much Of Our Philosophy And Far The Better Part Of The Political Knowledge We Possess.

There Is No Error So Monstrous That It Fails To Find Defenders Among The Ablest Men.

Power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men, Even When They Exercise Influence And Not Authority: Still More When You Superadd The Tendency Or The Certainty Of Corruption By Authority.

Those Who Have More Power Are Liable To Sin More; No Theorem In Geometry Is More Certain Than This.