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

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

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

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

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.