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

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

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

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.