Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

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

For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.