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

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

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.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.