At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.

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

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

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

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

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.