The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.