Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.