Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support