But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

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

It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.