Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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.
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.