On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government. - Alexis de Tocqueville

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Without common ideas, there is no common action, and without common action men still exist, but a social body does not. Thus in order that there be society, and all the more, that this society prosper, it is necessary that all the minds of the citizens always be brought together and held together by some principle ideas