Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

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

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

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.