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.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect, from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, every one abandons him and he remains alone.

A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly every day of the common wealth, without distracting you from your private affairs.

It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.

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

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.