To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

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.

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.

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

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.