It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

Official truth is not actual truth.

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

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

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.