The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

The mills of God grind slowly.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.