The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

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

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.