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.

In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect, from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, every one abandons him and he remains alone.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

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

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.