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

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.