How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak; and that no form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.