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"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

Charles Caleb Colton on Best

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• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

  John Wooden on Best

• "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

  Thomas Jefferson on Best

• "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

  Theodore Roosevelt on Best

• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

  e. e. cummings on Best

• "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

  Dalai Lama on Best

More quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

• "The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."

• "To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."

• "He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."

• "Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

• "There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."