The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority.... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

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

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.