History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.