Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.

And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him.