It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
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.
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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