There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

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.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.