No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

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.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.