The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

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

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.