• 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: 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 (1839). “Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Edited by William Stanhope Taylor and John Henry Pringle ...”, p.387