History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

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

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.