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

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.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

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

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.