Fanaticism In Religion Is The Alliance Of

I Saw In States' Rights The Only Availing Check Upon The Absolutism Of The Sovereign Will, And Secession Filled Me With Hope, Not As The Destruction But As The Redemption Of Democracy.... Therefore I Deemed That You Were Fighting The Battles Of Our Liberty, Our Progress, And Our Civilization, And I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.

Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men, Even When They Exercise Influence And Not Authority...

The True Natural Check On Absolute Democracy Is The Federal System, Which Limits The Central Government By The Powers Reserved, And The State Governments By The Powers They Have Ceded.

Power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men, Even When They Exercise Influence And Not Authority: Still More When You Superadd The Tendency Or The Certainty Of Corruption By Authority.

It Is Dangerous, At Any Time, To Multiply Sources Of Weakness.