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

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.