Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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