Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

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

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.