I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.