Moral Precepts Are Constant Through The Ages

The Barbarians, Who Possessed No Books, No Secular Knowledge, No Education, Except In The Schools Of The Clergy, And Who Had Scarcely Acquired The Rudiments Of Religious Instruction, Turned With Childlike Attachment To Men Whose Minds Were Stored With The Knowledge Of Scripture, Of Cicero, Of St. Augustine; And In The Scanty World Of Their Ideas, The Church Was Felt To Be Something Infinitely Vaster, Stronger, Holier Than Their Newly Founded States.

No Public Character Has Ever Stood The Revelation Of Private Utterance And Correspondence.

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.

Before Men Can Find Peace And Harmony Within Themselves They Must First Fall In Love With Their Country.

Liberty Is Not The Power Of Doing What We Like, But The Right Of Being Able To Do What We Ought.