"Power is a strange thing. It has a way of corrupting the best of intentions."

"Freedom is not a gift; it is a conquest."

"I have always believed that the human being is a political animal."

"Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of a century, have enabled man to be less enslaved."

"A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude, it pounces."