The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.