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.

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

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.

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

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.