A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

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

Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

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

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.