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

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to the needs of men in our time, and that I see in it the most powerful guarantee against themselves that remains to them. The minds of the moralists of our day ought to turn, therefore, principally toward it. Even should they judge it imperfect, they would still have to adopt it as necessary.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.