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

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.