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- Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
- An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
- The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
- The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
- The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.