Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

All around you everything is on the move.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.

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

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

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