Socialism means slavery.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

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

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.