It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. Aung San Suu Kyi, “Freedom from Fear”

“Resist much, obey little.” Walt Whitman

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go, Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.” Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes