Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.