[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.