"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my Lords, that where law ends tyranny begins!"
— Tyranny

January 1, 1970

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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, speaking in the House of Lords, 9 January 1770; cited from John Almon Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (London: J. S. Jordan, 1792) vol. 2, p. 21.