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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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

— John Adams

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— John Acton

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

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As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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