False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

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

The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

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

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.