Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

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