Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Socialism means slavery.

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.