There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

Great men are almost always bad men.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Official truth is not actual truth.