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

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

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.

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.