It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

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.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.