Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
Great men are almost always bad men.
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
The mills of God grind slowly.
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food
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