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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.