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.

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

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

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.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

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