Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

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.