The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

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

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.