History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.