If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

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

I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to the needs of men in our time, and that I see in it the most powerful guarantee against themselves that remains to them. The minds of the moralists of our day ought to turn, therefore, principally toward it. Even should they judge it imperfect, they would still have to adopt it as necessary.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.