Power ought to serve as a check to power.
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
