The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly every day of the common wealth, without distracting you from your private affairs.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter only; and materialism, in its turn, hurries them on with mad impatience to these same delights; such is the fatal circle within which democratic nations are driven round. It were well that they should see the danger and hold back.

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

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

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.