What Cowardice It Is To Be Dismayed

I Acknowledge That History Is Full Of Religious Wars: But We Must Distinguish; It Is Not The Multiplicity Of Religions Which Has Produced These Wars; It Was The Intolerating Spirit Which Animated That One Which Thought She Had The Power Of Governing.

Honor Is Unknown In Despotic States.

Never Create By Law What Can Be Accomplished By Morality.

In The Infancy Of Societies, The Chiefs Of State Shape Its Institutions; Later The Institutions Shape The Chiefs Of State.

But Constant Experience Shows Us That Every Man Invested With Power Is Apt To Abuse It, And To Carry His Authority As Far As It Will Go.