Knowing is what counts. To know one's country and govern it with that knowledge is the only way to free it from tyranny.

Newspapers, universities and schools should encourage the study of the country's pertinent components. To know them is sufficient, without mincing words; for w…

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own. And let the vanquished pedant hold his tongue, for there are no lands in which a ma…

In nations composed of both cultured and uncultured elements, the uncultured will govern because it is their habit to attack and resolve doubts with their fist…

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp an…

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.