This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

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.

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

It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.