The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

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