No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for 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.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

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

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.