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.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules.

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.