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

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

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

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

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.