"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins." -- William Pitt
William Pitt (d. 1840, in Malta) was an English ship-builder who was the Master Attendant at Jamaica Dockyard, and later of Malta. His amusing poem of "The Sailor's Consolation" is in many collections credited to Charles Dibdin.
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.""Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?""If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!""Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.""The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.""Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.""Unlimited power corrupts the possessor."