The world belongs to those with the most energy.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.