No Public Character Has Ever Stood The

It Is Bad To Be Oppressed By A Minority, But It Is Worse To Be Oppressed By A Majority.

Advice To Persons About To Write History - Don't.

Liberty Is The Prevention Of Control By Others.

There Is No Error So Monstrous That It Fails To Find Defenders Among The Ablest Men. Imagine A Congress Of Eminent Celebrities, Such As More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, Etc. The Result Would Be An Encyclopedia Of Error.

It Is They [men Of Science] Who Hold The Secret Of The Mysterious Property Of The Mind By Which Error Ministers To Truth, And Truth Slowly But Irrevocably Prevails. Theirs Is The Logic Of Discovery, The Demonstration Of The Advance Of Knowledge And The Development Of Ideas, Which As The Earthly Wants And Passions Of Men Remain Almost Unchanged, Are The Charter Of Progress, And The Vital Spark In History.