I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, has been simplified and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

America is great because she is good.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions