America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.