4 Quotes by Robert Morrison MacIver

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

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.

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.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.