Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.