Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

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

Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.