The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.