Despotic Power Is Always Accompanied

If The Past Has Been An Obstacle And A Burden, Knowledge Of The Past Is The Safest And The Surest Emancipation.

There Is No Worse Heresy Than That The Office Sanctifies The Holder Of It.

No Public Character Has Ever Stood The Revelation Of Private Utterance And Correspondence.

Power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men, Even When They Exercise Influence And Not Authority: Still More When You Superadd The Tendency Or The Certainty Of Corruption By Authority.

The Science Of Politics Is The One Science That Is Deposited By The Streams Of History, Like The Grains Of Gold In The Sand Of A River; And The Knowledge Of The Past, The Record Of Truths Revealed By Experience, Is Eminently Practical, As An Instrument Of Action And A Power That Goes To Making The Future.