The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

God makes us ask ourselves questions most often when He intends to resolve them. He gives us needs that He alone can satisfy, and awakens capacities that He means to fulfill. Any perplexity is liable to be a spiritual gestation, leading to a new birth and a mystical regeneration.

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.

A conqueror, I say, can change the course of everything, and muffled tyranny is the first thing which is liable to violence.