Edward Coke Quotes

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Ignorant power comes in the end to the same thing as wicked power; it makes misery.

Power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will be ever liable to abuse.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

When the white man turns tyrant [colonialism], it is his own freedom he destroys.

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

Things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe.

What are kingdoms without justice but large bands of robbers?

Powerlessness also corrupts.