Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

There is no indispensable man.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Only peace between equals can last.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.