Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.