Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Every class is unfit to govern.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.