Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.