Piety Sometimes Gives Birth To Scruples, And

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

The Fate Of Every Democracy, Of Every Government Based On The Sovereignty Of The People, Depends On The Choices It Makes Between These Opposite Principles, Absolute Power On The One Hand, And On The Other The Restraints Of Legality And The Authority Of Tradition.

There Is Not A More Perilous Or Immoral Habit Of Mind Than The Sanctifying Of Success.

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.

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