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

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 average American is nothing if not patriotic.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

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

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.