The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.
Every class is unfit to govern.