“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
"Great men are almost always bad men."
“There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”
“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”
-John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
"Great men are almost always bad men."
“There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”
“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”
-John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Know your enemy and know yourself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know yourself but not your enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know thy enemy but not yourself, wallow in defeat every time.