Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

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.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.