It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

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.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

Absolute power demoralizes.