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

The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of …

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to every…

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhamm…

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.