In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America... In the United States... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

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