“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, ...” — John Dalberg-Acton Quote

“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”

“By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.”

“The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.”

“Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.”

“By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.”

“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”

“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”

“I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.”

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”