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

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.