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

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

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

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.