Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; but still more when they are super bad and add the tendency of the certainty of corruption of authority

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity

Absolute power corrupts absolutely