Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.