![]() ![]() "The habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres Īvoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.Įncroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government,Ī just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. Get the book Change to Chains-the 6,000 year quest for global control Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another. ACCESS TO THE GOVERNMENT"įoreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitatedĪccess to the Government itself through the channels of party passions. ![]() Ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. (who) turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in theĪbsolute power of an Individual. "But this leads at length to a more formal and Party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself ĭomination of one faction over another, sharpened by the It is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its roots in the strongest passions of the human Mind. "Let me now.warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of Party. Unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and toĭestroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. They are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and "And of fatal tendency.to put, in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party - often a small but artful and enterprising minority. to overstep the boundaries marked out for it by the Constitution."įarewell Address, Washington cautioned of dangers facing America: ![]() Those amongst us who wish to enlarge the powers of the General Government. It is well known that there have always been Voice of prophecy, foretelling events and warning us of the evil to come. President Andrew Jackson commented on it in 1837: President George Washington's Farewell Address was printed in the It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do." Harry S Truman wrote in a personal memorandum, April 16, 1950: the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority." "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton wrote to Bishop Creighton, 1887: Plato's "Ring of Gyges" are metaphors for the unseen magnetic draw for power to be held in the hands of Then the actions of the just would be as the actions of the unjust they would both come at last to the same point." No man would keep his hands off what was not his own when he could safely take what he liked out of the market, or go into houses and lie with any one at his pleasure, or kill or release from prison whom he would, and in all respects be like a god among men. No man can be imagined to be of such an iron nature that he would stand fast in justice. Plato's Republic, 360b-d (Jowett trans.): Seduced the queen, killed the king, and took the throne. ![]() He spotted a gold ring on the finger of a former king who had been buried there.Īllowed him to become invisible, but the ring also induced him to Ring of Gyges, where a shepherd in Lydia, named Gyges, noticed a cave in the fields. "Lust of absolute power is more burning than all the passions." Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117AD) wrote in But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine." I would use this ring from a desire to do good. "Don't tempt me Frodo! I dare not take it. It wants to be found."įrodo offered the Ring to Gandalf, Gandalf rebuked him, saying: "Always remember Frodo, the Ring is trying to get back to its master. Tolken describes man's insatiable lust for "the Ring of Power," as Gandalf exclaimed: ![]()
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