No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.