I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

America is great because she is good.

The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, has been simplified and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.