All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
You can't trust anybody with power.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
All political power is a trust.
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.