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

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.