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.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.