The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

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

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food