The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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.