# Checks and Balances

->There is danger from all staff. The only slogan of a free network ought to be to trust no staff member with enough power to threaten the public liberty.

->In creating a network, the difficulty is you must allow the staff to control the users; and afterwards to control itself.

->Pure democracies have always been scenes of anarchy and chaos; they are as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

->The ancient democracies, in which the users directly made all decisions, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny.

->The accumulation of all powers in the same hands is the definition of admin abuse.