Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

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.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.