Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in office." It acts upon men like drink: it "is known to be intoxicating in its nature""too intoxicating and liable to abuse." And nothing within man is sufficiently strong to guard against these effects of powercertainly not "the united considerations of reason and religion," for they have never "been sufficiently powerful to restrain these lusts of men.
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