The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

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

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

Great men are almost always bad men.