Robert Morrison MacIver Quotes.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.
The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.