The moment you have protected an individual you have protected society. But the moment you destroy an individual you have destroyed an individual — and that is all. Society cannot be protected by the destruction of individuals.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members, and the bond of union is reason itself.

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones.

The moment you have protected an individual you have protected society which is made up of individuals. The moment you have lost the individual you have lost everything.

To be entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. The first principle for the relations between States should be loyalty to natural obligations of human beings, not to the state, whenever these conflict. A man who truly believes in an ordered society must believe in the equality of human rights.