Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.