Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

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.

In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.