Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.