In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Category Archive: 1805
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.