The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

There are evils worse than death.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.