Abigail Adams Quotes about Power

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Letter to John Adams, 7 May 1776
Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.185, Harvard University Press
Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.81