Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.

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.

America is great because she is good.

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

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