Famous quotes containing the words power and/or corrupts:
“Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)