An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

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

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.