Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

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

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