Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

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