Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Adams
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke