With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

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