There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

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.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

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