A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

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

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.