A Generous Spirit Prefers That His Country

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.

The Science Of Politics Is The One Science That Is Deposited By The Streams Of History, Like The Grains Of Gold In The Sand Of A River; And The Knowledge Of The Past, The Record Of Truths Revealed By Experience, Is Eminently Practical, As An Instrument Of Action And A Power That Goes To Making The Future.

Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End.

A Man Can Be Trusted Only Up To Low-water Mark.