Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

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

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

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

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.