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

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

The mills of God grind slowly.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.