A.T. Baron Quotes
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.
The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!
