No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

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.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of vigor can sometimes support a debilitated body, but most often it manages to deal it the final blow.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.