The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

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

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Education is preparation to live completely.