So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.