One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them - Tolkien's Warning and a Great Lesson We Need To Keep. In the Hobbit, and Ring Trilogy, there is a deep meaning of Good and Evil behind the ring.  and there is great wisdom in the tale for us. For those of us who want to use the evil tactics of the democrats to fight against them Tolkien said, “You can’t fight the Enemy with his own Ring without turning into an Enemy.” Even peering into the ways of the enemy is dangerous. Elrond explains, “It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”  Those who want to use Evil to achieve a Good end, don't understand the nature of Evil.  When Frodo offers the ring to the wise Gandalf he says:  "No! With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly! Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused" Understand, that using the power the wrong way, is not the bad thing, it is the power itself that is bad. Our wise founding fathers understood the nature of power.  In every person, even the best among us, there exist Good and Evil.  If a person welds power(The Ring), that power itself will by temptation corrupt the Good and it will become Evil.  And a person who posses greatness already, will become all the more evil.   Regarding centralized power, in my view, the evil does not exist because evil people govern, it is that controlling power to govern that is the evil.  This is why our Founders intended men to govern themselves.  Therefore, as long as the centralized institution of government power exist, the evil will exist no matter who controls the institution. The reason why both Gandalf and Galadriel fear the power of the Ring is that they recognize that it was made to do bad, and therefore any good action made by it will turn into evil. In the words of the Lord of Rivendell, Elrond,  "We cannot use the Ruling Ring. That we now know too well. It belongs to Sauron and was made by him alone, and is altogether evil. Its strength is too great for anyone to wield at will, save only those who have already a great power of their own. But for them it holds an even deadlier peril. The very desire of it corrupts the heart. If any of the Wise should with this Ring overthrow the Lord of Mordor, using his own arts, he would then set himself on Sauron's throne, and yet another Dark Lord would appear. And that is another reason why the Ring should be destroyed: as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so.  Frodo speaks these words, of sacrifice, in his final farewell to Sam as he departs for the Grey Haven:   I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so Sam, when things are in danger some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.” And so patriots, we must remember this, that we do not fight to preserve life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness for ourselves alone, but for humanity. https://mises.org/library/tolkien-v-power WWG1WGA