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

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

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

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.