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

I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

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