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

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

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

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

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.