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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
People
Power
Liberties
Nip
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Only
Bud
Maxim
Shoots
Any
Which
Ever
Preserve
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
Liberty
Power
Ruins
Easily
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Abuse
Most
Established
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Truth
World
Power
Humane
Destroy
Possession
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Magnanimity
Over
Always
Sensibility
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Mercy Otis Warren
Love
Power
Lust
All Nations
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Degrees
Prevailed
Civilization
Proportion
Uncontrolled
Perhaps
Domination
Nations
Among
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney
Prevail
Corruption
Liberty
Power
Virtue
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Advantage
Subsist
Established
Vice
Cannot
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
Anthony Lewis
Work
Hard Work
Freedom
Injustice
Law
Power
Rulers
Citizens
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Voices
Trusted
Up
Cannot
Hard
Raise
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
Larry Wall
People
Power
Different Kinds
Rejection
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Kinds
Structures
Ideas
Very
Different
Sensitive
Different People
Basic
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
William H. Seward
Wealth
Power
Nation
National
Valor
Indeed
Ours
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
True
Nevertheless
Over
Over It
Domain
Hold
Acquired
Whole
We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch.
Zephyr Teachout
Free
Power
Revolution
Ourselves
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Whims
Monarch
Fought
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