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

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority.... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.