No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

Aristocracy is always cruel.