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.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

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.