Great men are almost always bad men.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

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

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.