It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.