The Long Term Versus The Short Term

Those Who Have More Power Are Liable To Sin More; No Theorem In Geometry Is More Certain Than This.

It Is Bad To Be Oppressed By A Minority, But It Is Worse To Be Oppressed By A Majority. For There Is A Reserve Of Latent Power In The Masses Which, If It Is Called Into Play, The Minority Can Seldom Resist. But From The Absolute Will Of An Entire People There Is No Appeal, No Redemption, No Refuge But Treason.

Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End...liberty Is The Only Object Which Benefits All Alike, And Provokes No Sincere Opposition...the Danger Is Not That A Particular Class Is Unfit To Govern. ~ Every Class Is Unfit To Govern ... Power Tends To Corrupt, And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men.

The Reward Of History Is That It Releases And Relieves Us From Present Strife.

I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.