The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

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

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.