Towns were the nursery of freedom.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Absolute power demoralizes.

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.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.