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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."
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"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."
Power
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
Imagination
"A government of laws, and not of men."
Government
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
Democracy
"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
Politics
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
Power
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
Nature
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
Power
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
People
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
Living
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