“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

“CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest a lot of poor fools as ever burned their betters.”

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”

“Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.”

“She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”