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

It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North but do it in almost every Southern State.

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.