We need a new political science for a new world.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.