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

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

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

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.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.