If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.