Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Socialism means slavery.