Towns were the nursery of freedom.

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

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

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

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

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.