Power Tends To Corrupt, And Absolute Power

There Is Not A More Perilous Or Immoral Habit Of Mind Than The Sanctifying Of Success.

Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End. It Is Not For The Sake Of A Good Public Administration That It Is Required, But For The Security In The Pursuit Of The Highest Objects Of Civil Society, And Of Private Life.

Feudalism Made Land The Measure And The Master Of All Things.

Liberty And Good Government Do Not Exclude Each Other; And There Are Excellent Reasons Why They Should Go Together. Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End.

The Form Of Government And The Condition Of Society Must Always Correspond. Social Equality Is Therefore A Postulate Of Pure Democracy.