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

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

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.

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

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.