Moral Precepts Are Constant Through The Ages

There Is Not A More Perilous Or Immoral Habit Of Mind Than The Sanctifying Of Success.

I Cannot Accept Your Canon That We Are To Judge Pope And King Unlike Other Men, With A Favorable Presumption That They Do No Wrong. If There Is Any Presumption, It Is The Other Way Against Holders Of Power...power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

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.

Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men.