“Business is in itself a power.”– Garet Garrett Related Quotes “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”– Thomas Paine “Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.”– Charles Babbage “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