A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

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

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

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.

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

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.