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

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.