One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.