History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

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

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.