"The strongest argument against despotism is that it does not adequately educate the people it governs."

"Every man who says frankly and without cant, what he thinks, will be in some way a benefactor to his age."

"The power of education to make men what they are, is almost boundless."

"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead."

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end."