History, To Be Above Evasion

There Is No Evidence To Support The Belief That Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Ever Questioned Americas Power. He Questioned Only The President's John F. Kennedys Readiness To Use It. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

A Government Does Not Desire Its Powers To Be Strictly Defined, But The Subjects Require The Line To Be Drawn With Increasing Precision.

Liberty, Next To Religion Has Been The Motive Of Good Deeds And The Common Pretext Of Crime.

I Cannot Accept Your Canon That We Are To Judge Pope And King Unlike Other Men, With A Favorable Presumption That They Do No Wrong. If There Is Any Presumption, It Is The Other Way Against Holders Of Power...power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

The Possession Of Unlimited Power Corrodes The Conscience, Hardens The Heart, And Confounds The Understanding.