There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

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.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.