“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”

“The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities”

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”

“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ”

“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.”

“Great men are almost always bad men.”