We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

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

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

Great men are almost always bad men.

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