Advice To Persons About To Write History

Limitation Is Essential To Authority. A Government Is Legitimate Only If It Is Effectively Limited.

False Principles, Which Correspond With The Bad As Well As With The Just Aspirations Of Mankind, Are A Normal And Necessary Element In The Social Life Of Nations.

Character Is Tested By True Sentiments More Than By Conduct. A Man Is Seldom Better Than His Word.

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

Liberty Is The Prevention Of Control By Others. This Requires Self-control And, Therefore, Religious And Spiritual Influences; Education, Knowledge, Well-being.