Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.