"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 strongest of all arguments against the present constitution of society is, that it does not permit the free development of every individual."

"The ultimate sanction, therefore, of all morality, is a subjective feeling in our own minds."

"It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves, but by cultivating it and calling it forth, within the limits imposed by the rights and interests of others, that human …"

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