“France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.”

“It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love”

“Of France and England, did this king succeed;Whose state so many had the managing.That they lost France and made his England bleed.”

“What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no superiorities over us in that matter. Steamboating? No. French steamboating is still of Fulton's date--1809. Postal service? No. France is a back number there. Telegraphy? No, we taught her that ourselves. Journalism? No. Magazining? No, that is our own specialty. Government? No; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Nobility, Democracy, Adultery the system is too variegated for our climate. Religion? No, not variegated enough for our climate. Morals? No, we cannot rob the poor to enrich ourselves.”

“France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.”

“We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.”