Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.