Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

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

Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.

In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which the human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united into a society.

America is great because she is good.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.