Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries.

Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

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

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.