It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.

A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.