They [the Americans] equally detest the pageantry of a king, and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.

There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

When the constitution is openly invaded, when the first original right of the people, from which all laws derive their authority, is directly attacked, inferio…

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregard…

Old-fashioned values may count when conservatives appear on the stump, but once conservatives are in office the only old-fashioned situation they care to reviv…