Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy....liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.