This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

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.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

We need a new political science for a new world.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.