I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.

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

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

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.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.