"Of all the loose and thoughtless theories of the time, this of the rights of man is the most foolish."

"They who are in love with practice without theory are like the sailor who boards ship without rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."

"The true politician, when he is called to the helm of a state, is to know how to preserve it from the storms, and not to expose it to them."

"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."