"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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― John Adams
More From John Adams
- "The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
- "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."
- "Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws."
More In Power
- "Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing."― Catherine II
- "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."― Alfred Lord Tennyson
- "The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses."― John Stuart Mill