No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.