The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

The art of publicity is a black art.