In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness. - Alexis de Tocqueville

A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.

"The will of the nation" is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

If it be of the highest importance to man, as an individual, that his religion should be true, the case of society is not the same. Society has no future life to hope for or to fear; and provided the citizens profess a religion, the peculiar tenets of that religion are of very little importance to its interests.