So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority.... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.