| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 1060 sider
...Washington today. From Mrs. WS, Pennsylvania: As Colton said, so say we all; no man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power for...so dangerous a privilege, yet when possessed others cannot longer answer for him because he can no longer answer for himself. From AIH, New York City:... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 1078 sider
...Washington today. From Mrs. WS, Pennsylvania: As Colton said, so say we all; no man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power for whatever qualifications he may have evinced In i nlitle him to the possession of so dangerous a privilege, yet when possessed i>thers cannot longer... | |
| William J. Dominik - 1994 - 228 sider
...meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. 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. Charles Colton' Faculty and Instituiwn Power... | |
| William A. Rieser - 2002 - 388 sider
...increasingly without privacy; members ofa naked society and denizens ofa goldfish bowl.” —Edward V. Long “Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough to be trusted with unlimited power.” —Charles Caleb Colton (1 A ) hen Yen was born to Edwin and... | |
| Helen Granat - 2003 - 302 sider
...rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. THOMAS JEFFERSON 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. CALEB COLTON Study as if you were to live forever.... | |
| J. Comras - 68 sider
...here and outline its essential elements in the column to the right._(Students' answers will vary.) Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man or group of men is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. (Adaptedfrom the... | |
| Clarence Warner - 2005 - 390 sider
...would never be political security. I also read the words of the English clergyman, Caleb C. Colton, "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." I realized that the attainment of great political... | |
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