Quotes

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature knows no equality.

He that’s merciful to the bad is cruel to the good.

There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

Injustice is in itself, to every generous and properly constituted mind, an injury, of all others the most insufferable, the most torturing, and the

We bring nothing to the party, so why should we expect to take anything home? – in 2001 annual report to shareholders

A beautiful child only a few weeks old suddenly dies of a strange pneumonia in its little bed; cancer or rabies brings anguished death

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

There can be no such thing as a necessary evil. For if a thing is really necessary, it cannot be an evil and if

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent. – from a letter