On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

We need a new political science for a new world.