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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
~ Alexander Hamilton

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
~ John Adams

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
~ Benjamin Franklin

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