The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of …

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort…

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other

'The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what s…

There ought to be limits to freedom.

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community...that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-…