When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.