Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

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.

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