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- Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
- John Calhoun (1782 - 1850)
- There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
- Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
- Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
- Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861)
- The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.
- John Dalberg
- Study the past if you would define the future.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
- Quida
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