We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

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