Quote #978
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Quote #21750
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Quote #7920
It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise...
Quote #14697
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders...
Quote #3294
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Quote #12978
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to...
Quote #13422
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into...
Quote #2501
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Quote #29017
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Quote #19997
No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are...