Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

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.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

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

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.