The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.