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

That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.

In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

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

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

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.