Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.

What most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the …

It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews…

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.