There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

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.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Socialism means slavery.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

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

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

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

A sense of peace came over me and I must have been smiling as I fell asleep.

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

It is meant to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the most floral.

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.