Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

William Pitt
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If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

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In the bad old days there were three easy ways of losing money - racing being the quickest women the pleasantest and farming the most certain.

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The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter! - all his force dares not cross the threshhold of the ruined tenement!

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I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.

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