"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"Great men are almost always bad men."
“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."
"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."
"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought."