Look within! - The secret is inside you |
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. |
Never be surprised at the crumbling of an idol or the disclosure of a skeleton |
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American |
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence |
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
Resist your time - take a foothold outside it |
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. |
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. |
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities |
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities |
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections |
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men |