“To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.”

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

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.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

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

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.

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 has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment.

It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.

Your past may not be perfect, but it was perfect for your purpose.

You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.