Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect, from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, every one abandons him and he remains alone.