Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

We need a new political science for a new world.

There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

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.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.