The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.