The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.