Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Socialism means slavery.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

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.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern every class is unfit to govern.

It is dangerous at any time to multiply sources of weakness.

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.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

When liberty returns, I will return.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.