It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

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

There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.