Great men are almost always bad men.
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.