“Face your fears or they will climb over your back.”

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”

“Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.”

“motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.”

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends mor...”

“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”

“[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.”

“If their social institutions were abhorrent, their unwritten constitution bordered upon the absurd. The absolutist monarchs of the ancient kingdoms of Amara looked with detestation at the Shazarian...”

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”

“Death is softer by far than tyranny.”

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”

“He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.”