The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

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

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.