Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.