Power Abuse Quotes
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Perhaps the most famous quotation in all of Political Science is this one. What is fascinating is that 74 years earlier, Shelly, the most famous of the English Poets expressed the same idea in one of his great poems. See {627920}. The last sentence of this quote is often excluded.
The only soldier ever so honored. MacArthur had a huge ego, and was a shameless self-promoter. However he was never secure enough to have a personal staff of strong independent thinkers the way Dwight Eisenhower and most other high military officers did. The men who stayed on MacArthur’s personal staff tended to be sycophants and toadies and treated him like royalty, hence the remark by General Marshall.
See {585638} for the kind of statement that led people to fear him as a dictator.
Head of the Sikh Religion
From a 2009 interview.
He was referring to the arch conservative isolationists who did not want to spend any Federal money to strengthen the armed forces and their weaponry.
This was utilized (without attribution) to attack the press by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in a famous campaign speech in 1931.
