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

Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

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.