All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.