The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
From Alexis de Tocqueville
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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