The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

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

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

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.

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.