Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

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

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

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

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.