The mills of God grind slowly.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.