"The government of a country by a bureaucracy is an evil of the first magnitude."

"The government of a country, by a part of the people, is, for all purposes of good government, an equally objectionable form of government with that of a single despot."

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end."

"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."

"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead."