By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

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.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

The mills of God grind slowly.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.