Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

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

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.