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

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war with each other, but which, in America, they have succeeded in incorporating somehow into one another and combining marvelously. I mean to speak of the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.