If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.