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

Great men are almost always bad men.

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

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

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

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

Every class is unfit to govern.