The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.