There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
Great men are almost always bad men.
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
The mills of God grind slowly.
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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