Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

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

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.