Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

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.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

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.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.