The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

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

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.