That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.