I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.