A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.