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

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

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.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

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.