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

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

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

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.