The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

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.

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 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.

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

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

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