The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.