Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.