A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

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

Socialism means slavery.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

By far the best proof is experience.

We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

Humility is the light of understanding.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.