Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

Socialism means slavery.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.