A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it, one discovers without difficulty that a more immense judicial power has never been constituted in any people.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.