I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

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

Socialism means slavery.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

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.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.