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Charles Caleb Colton: Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is…

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.

In today’s wordsPower intoxicates the best hearts the way wine does the strongest heads. No one is wise enough or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Charles Caleb ColtonCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893

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