Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
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.
I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
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.
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