I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.