The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to …

- Orestes Brownson

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

- Orestes Brownson

If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the …

- Orestes Brownson

The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make open attacks on religion…

- Orestes Brownson

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, a…

- Orestes Brownson

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the e…

- Orestes Brownson

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the syst…

- Orestes Brownson