everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

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.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

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

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.

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.