"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."

"Individual spontaneity is entitled to free exercise."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lessened the toil of any human being."

"The tendency of all changes of a progressive kind, is to give increased ascendancy to the comparatively uninstructed many."

"The government of dependencies by a free nation is always a most difficult problem."