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

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

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

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

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.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.