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

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

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

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Great men are almost always bad men.