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

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.

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

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.