When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Often your face is your autobiography

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.