Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

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.

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

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

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

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.