Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All men would be tyrants if they could.
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
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.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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