There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

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

If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.