To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.