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

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.