effects-of-power

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 power__ertainly not "the united considerations of reason and religion," for they have never "been sufficiently powerful to restrain these lusts of men.