You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

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

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.