“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.”

“There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.”

“To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.”

“Socialism means slavery.”

“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.”

“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 the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”

“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”

“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”