The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay
Many politicians lay it down as a self evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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