If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.