“People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.”

“The art of making much show with little substance.”

“In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.”

“The temple of silence and reconciliation.”

“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”

“The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.”

“[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.”

“If their social institutions were abhorrent, their unwritten constitution bordered upon the absurd. The absolutist monarchs of the ancient kingdoms of Amara looked with detestation at the Shazarian...”

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”