The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.