The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools.

I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.