A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

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

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.