To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.
History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.