A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.