Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

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

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.