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.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

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

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.