Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.
It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.