No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
When you're looking at a sea of people there ready for a band, it is an unbelievable feeling. You've just got to seize the moment and put on the best show you can and make sure everybody's having a good time by the end of it.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.
The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.