Official truth is not actual truth.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

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 law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

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