There is no man more dangerous in a position of power than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

There will always be vain obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous and when they are dead is cowardly.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power whether vested in many or a few is ever grasping and like the grave cries 'Give give.'

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier a dangerous quality in the captain and a positive crime in the statesman.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Politics is almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once but in politics many times.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.