Bernard Bailyn Quotes

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 - Certainly 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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