Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

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

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.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.