It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

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

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

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.