A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.