History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

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

Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.