“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 the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.”

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

“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. ”

“Great men are almost always bad men.”