Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.