Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.
It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.