Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

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

The mills of God grind slowly.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.