Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

All around you everything is on the move.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.