America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

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

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.