Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Absolute power demoralizes.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.