The doctrine of equality! : But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice : 'Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal' - that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, 'never make the unequal equal'.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book - what everyone else does not say in a whole book.

When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must mak…

My conception of freedom. - The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us. I give…

Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

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…