The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.