Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.