If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

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

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Absolute power demoralizes.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.