Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.

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

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.