What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

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.

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.