A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Absolute power demoralizes.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.