Our administration does not enjoy our confidence … it is not surprising that society will try its best to weaken it.

That which thinking people have been afraid of has occurred: a time of turning backward, of reaction, is beginning.

Never had people considered themselves so intelligent and infallible … Never had individuals considered more unshakable their judgments, their scholarly conclusions, their moral convictions and beliefs … All were in a state of unrest and did not understand one another. Each thought that he alone possessed the truth, and looking at others, tormented himself, beat himself on the chest, cried and wrung his hands.