The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.
Towns were the nursery of freedom.
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.