"Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain."
— Authority

January 1, 1970

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Samuel Butler, Miscellaneous Thoughts, line 283, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 47.