“Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.”

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.

The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”

Words come and flow with me instantaneously. Perhaps, those were abandoned too by someone.

Anyone who abandons you is for teaching you how to stand up on your own two feet.

I was so moved by your false affections I was pushed right off the ledge but love didn’t come to find me abandonment did instead.