The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.