A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one Man and no body of Men and no Number of men can find Means to trespass on the liberty of any Person or any description of Persons in the Society. This kind of Liberty is indeed but another name for Justice, ascertained by wise Laws. And secured by well constructed institutions. Edmund Burke Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to to govern.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of it's presence. Fyodor Dostoyevski Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made. Home Page . Site Map .