Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.