The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.