Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
President Ronald Regan said:
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
And then the words of President Dwight D Eisenhower
In the councils of government, we must guard against
the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by
the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
There is power
and then there is Power
and that's poetiquejustis
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this:
that power belongs to God,
that power belongs to God,