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

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Great men are almost always bad men.