I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Socialism means slavery.