The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

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.

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

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.