Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, has been simplified and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.