Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
Absolute power demoralizes.
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.
Every class is unfit to govern.
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.