Good And Evil Lie Close

The Epoch Of Doubt And Transition During Which The Greeks Passed From The Dim Fancies Of Mythology To The Fierce Light Of Science Was The Age Of Pericles, And The Endeavour To Substitute Certain Truth For The Prescriptions Of Impaired Authorities, Which Was Then Beginning To Absorb The Energies Of The Greek Intellect, Is The Grandest Movement In The Profane Annals Of Mankind, For To It We Owe, Even After The Immeasurable Progress Accomplished By Christianity, Much Of Our Philosophy And Far The Better Part Of The Political Knowledge We Possess.

Liberty Is The Prevention Of Control By Others.

The Will Of The People Cannot Make Just That Which Is Unjust.

Though Oppression May Give Rise To Violent And Repeated Outbreaks, Like The Convulsions Of A Man In Pain, It Cannot Mature A Settled Purpose And Plan Of Regeneration, Unless A New Notion Of Happiness Is Joined To The Sense Of Present Evil.

History Provides Neither Compensation For Suffering Nor Penalties For Wrong.