Daily Dabble in the Classics, Edmund Burke
“All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust: and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of Society . … Power to be legitimate must be according to that eternal, immutable law, in which will and reason are the same.”
Source: Edmund Burke, as quoted in Modern Age 5:273.