There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, 'a new form of servitude.'

The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must…

We must face the act that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer - not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular rel…

What is the end of our revolution? The tranquil enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice, the laws of which are graven, not on marb…

This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose lead…