The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil that there must be opposition between its various branches and between political parties for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Uncontrolled the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Conjugal love or the friendship of spouses can persist even after sexual desires have weakened withered and disappeared.

The three main sources of scepticism are first that not every people desires freedom second that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.