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

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.