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

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.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

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.