The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

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.

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

A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.