Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

Absolute power demoralizes.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

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.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.