It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.