At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.