Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

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

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Great men are almost always bad men.

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.