Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.