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

Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.

The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.