When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.

It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it read more

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.

As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.