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- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Lord Acton, Lecture, February 26, 1877
- But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
- I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
- He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
- He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
- Samuel Foote (1720 - 1777)
- For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause for breath,
And love itself have rest. - Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. - William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- No man is demolished but by himself.
- Richard Bently
- Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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