Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.