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.

Walter Colton
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. - Unknown
  2. As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power. - James Rozoff
  3. It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong. - Otto Von Bismarck
  4. The worship of power is an old religion. - George Santayana
  5. What a curious power words have. - Tadeusz Borowski
More Quotes By Walter Colton
  1. Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
  2. Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
  3. If you would know and not be known live in a city.
  4. If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.
  5. Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
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