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

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

The mills of God grind slowly.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

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

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.