“If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.”

Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

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…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.