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

In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

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

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.