Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
All men would be tyrants if they could.
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.
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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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.
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
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