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

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.