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

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

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

It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.