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

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.