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

I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

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

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.