Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

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

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

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.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.