If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

Every country has the government it deserves.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.