Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.