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

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

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

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

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.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.