The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

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.

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

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.