When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

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

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called...

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley