Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America... In the United States... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

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

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

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.