Just a few ideas that have ceased to be modern.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.