Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Official truth is not actual truth.