In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.