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

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.