"The family was based, not upon actual relationship, but upon power, and the husband acquired over his wife the same d…"

"We cannot give a reason, other than mere chance, why power over a wife should have retained the name of manus, why po…"

"So great is the ascendancy of the Law of Actions in the infancy of Courts of Justice, that substantive law has at fir…"

"Nobody is at liberty to attack several property and to say at the same time that he values civilisation. The history …"

"Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin."

"Here then we have one great inherent infirmity of popular governments, an infirmity deducible from the principle of H…"

"So far indeed as the human race has experience, it is not by political societies in any way resembling those now call…"

"[T]he Constitutions and the legal systems of the several North American States, and of the United States, would be wh…"

"[I]n the very first place, Democracy, like Monarchy, like Aristocracy, like any other government, must preserve the n…"

"The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract."