 | 1775 - 454 lehte
...there only when there is mo abule of power ; but conftant experience fhews us that every man invefted with power is apt to abufe it; and to carry his authority as far as it will go, Is knot ftrange, though true, to &y, that virtue itfelf has need of limits ? To prevent this abufe 1t... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1823 - 810 lehte
...abuse of power ; but constant experience shews us, that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it ; and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Is it not strange, though true, to say, that virtue itself has need of limits ? To prevent this abuse, it is... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1899 - 472 lehte
...abuse of .power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Is it not strange, though true, to say that virtue itself has need of limits ? /~ To prevent this abuse, it is... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1912 - 1076 lehte
...abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse & ; strange (though true) to say that virtue itself has need of limits? To prevent this abuse, it is necessary... | |
 | Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 lehte
...abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Is it not strange, though true, to say that virtue itself has need of limits? To prevent this abuse, it is necessary... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - 1919 - 680 lehte
...abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Is it not strange, though true, to say that virtue itself has need of limits ? To prevent this abuse, it is necessary... | |
 | Gaspar Griswold Bacon - 1928 - 232 lehte
...Montesquieu said: "Constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. To prevent this abuse, it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1973 - 1168 lehte
...abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Is it not strange, though true, to say that virtue itself has need of limits? ... To prevent this abuse, it is... | |
| |
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry... 
