A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

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.