Power conspires against the greatest of men and the noblest of causes. Power leads virtuous men to do ignoble deeds. He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Even if you start out fighting a tyrant, you yourself may become that tyrant. These are uncertain times, a tyrant falls only to be replaced by another. King Louis XVI (the 16th) gave up some of his power to placate the French people, but as soon as the revolutionaries gained that power the wanted more. Later they even fired on a crowd to keep their power, the Jacobins then rose to power only to rule even more oppressively, as you can see from the daily executions. We
