The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

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

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

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

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Socialism means slavery.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.