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 | "A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the
same thing; only at different times." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among
the ablest men." | |
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Found in the topic Error.
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| "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really
free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." | |
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Found in the topic Country.
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| "Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments
are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without
testing." | |
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Found in the topic Judgment.
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| "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the
highest political end." | |
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Found in the topic Politics.
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| "There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder
of it." | |
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Found in the topic Worse.
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| "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men...." | |
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Found in the topic Faith.
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| "Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others;
have no favourites." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not bear
discussion and publicity." | |
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Found in the topic Administration.
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| "Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the
strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal
responsibility." | |
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Found in the topic Power.
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