Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

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.

A little madness shows the way to happiness.A little kindness can heal the sadness.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.