The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

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

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

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.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.