A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

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

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

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