 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 sider
...It is equally criminal in the governor, and the governed, to violate the laws.—Chinese maxim. 672. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power ; for, whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
 | 1856 - 570 sider
...Sacred Book that's never read ; To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. , __ Colton. "DOWER will intoxicate the best hearts, as Wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited Power; for, whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton - 1861 - 268 sider
...them in motion \vas ceas«& \» w*,. doing the greatest m\sc\uei, «fe« ^\\a ta»aR. \N\ivch POWER. POWER will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the...him, because he can no longer answer for himself. PRAISE AND CENSORE. IT has been shrewdly said, that when men abuse us, we should suspect ourselves;... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1865 - 272 sider
...everything from their cause and to do nothing for themselves. INTOXICATING EFFECT OF POWER.—Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power ; for, •whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1866 - 380 sider
...of others; and that to say " I AM," is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God. POWEE will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest...him, because he can no longer answer for himself. To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 sider
...T)OWER will intoxicate the best hearts, as Wine the -L strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited Power ; for,...possessed. others can no longer answer for him, because lie can no longer answer for himself. |30tucr. — Colton. LORD BACON has compared those who move in... | |
 | 1891 - 556 sider
...any certainty discover what at the bottom Is the true character of any man. Burke. INTOXICATION OP. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with un limited power; for, whatever (nullifications he may have evinced... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 sider
...is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in supporting it.—RICHTER. Power.—Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. —COLTON. . The desire of power in excess caused... | |
 | 1899 - 704 sider
...to what is low, exaltation. Cotton. Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring, liaron. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. Colton. Power's footstool is opinion, and his... | |
 | 1905 - 1078 sider
...Loyola to "build" further, thereby enhancing the powers of the Catholic hierarchy. See the consequences. "Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man (nor set of men) are •wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."—Colton.... | |
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power ; for whatever qualifications he may have evinced to entitle him to the possession of so dangerous a privilege,... 
