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

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.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.