"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins." - William Pitt the Elder, 1770 "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton, 1887 "You can give a man office, but you can’t give him discretion." - Ben Franklin "You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything from them." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave." - Arnold Schwarzenegger "The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing." - Herodotus