François Guizot

“When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man quit his own ends to work for the salvation of all.”

“Enrichissez-vous par le travail et par l'épargne!”

“The world belongs to optimists; pessimists are only spectators.”

“Self-government is, in our judgment, the noblest and the best of all governments.”

“The world belongs to the energetic.”

“The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.”

“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”

“Facts are for the historian what the passionate promises of the politician are for the people.”

“Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.”