There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

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

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

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.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

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.