History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other,…

Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus. He who follows this steadi…

Ces deux moities de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!

That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.

The average 'educated' American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at …