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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."

John Adams on Power

More quotes about Power

  • "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

    Abraham Lincoln on Power

  • "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

    Margaret Thatcher on Power

  • "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

    Bruce Lee on Power

  • "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

  • "Character is power."

    Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by John Adams

  • "Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

  • "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

  • "Fear is the foundation of most governments."

  • "Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."

  • "When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

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