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

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

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

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

The mills of God grind slowly.

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

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.