The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

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

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.