Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation no discussion except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you your whole family and all people like you.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard very liable to be broken.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness public criticism of each other and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

Understand that legal and illegal are political and often arbitrary categorizations use and abuse are medical or clinical distinctions.