The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

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

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