Expediency may be admirable in telling the statesmen what to do; but it does not explain the sources of his ultimate act, nor justify the thing finally done.

The unconscious deeps which lie beneath the surface of the mind are rarely less urgent than the motives that are avowed.

Action is less their elimination than their index; and we must penetrate within their recesses before we have the full materials for judgment.
Considered in this fashion, the case for natural rights is surely unanswerable.

The things that men desire correspond, in some rough fashion, to the things they need.

Natural rights are nothing more than the armour evolved to protect their vital interests.